At 09:35 11/20/98 -0500, Chuck wrote:
>One of the myth's they always told us was they all had to be
>made by hand - there wasn't a machine that could thread the
>row/column and sense wires for mass production. Is there any
>rumor to this truth?
yeahright. In _IBM's Early Computers_ by Bashe et al., you will find
elaborate description of machinery developed to automate the production of
core planes, complete [IIRC] with pictures.
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